Nearest cities: Conshohocken borough, PA (0.9 miles ), Bridgeport borough, PA (1.7 miles ), Plymouth Meeting, PA (1.8 miles ), Bryn Mawr, PA (1.8 miles ), King of Prussia, PA (1.9 miles ), Norristown borough, PA (1.9 miles ), Radnor Township, PA (2.0 miles ), Haverford College, PA (2.1 miles ).
Historian James Truslow Adams often receives credit for first popularizing the idea of the American dream.
1944: During his time at Columbia, Kerouac meets Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs. 1946: Leo Kerouac, father, dies. Kerouac begins The Town and the City which is his first novel. This is includes recollections of adolescence in Lowell and his first years in New York City with Lucien Carr and Allen Ginsberg.948: Kerouac conceives of the idea for writing On the Road but is unsure about the style of writing. Has a dream about a âShroudy strangerâ which will become part of his influence for Doctor Sax and is recurring theme in several of his novels including On the Road.